Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: Humanomics, Volume 28, Issue 1

In an innovative lecture given by Gionanni Dosi at the Institute of New Economic Theory (INET) entitled, “Economic coordination and dynamics: some elements of an alternative ‘evolutionary’ paradigm” (November 18, 2011), a scathing criticism on how we teach and understand economics as an exclusive science has been unbared. Instead, the author calls for the need to evoke awareness in and by teachers, textbooks, and lectures in classroom setting to present economics as an inclusive science, and to point out the many technical and social incompleteness of the way that economics is being taught for quite sometime. New grounds need to be sowed. Such a realization is at once a challenge to present paradigm of economics that although maturing as a scientific doctrine for quite sometime has not been able to grow out of its straight jacket of sheer specialization without the social and realistic contents. This challenge takes us to a new opening, which is an exercise on maturing social actualization; the dawning of a new age of substantive interdisciplinarity; the birth of a new methodology that can be suitable,consistent and logical as well as applicative for the study and application of the interdisciplinary approach in rigorous ways.

Humanomics, the international journal of systems and ethics has precisely provoked this intriguing question and called forth socio-scientific thought along such a new direction of inclusive interdisciplinarity with a new methodology thereby. The role of the moral law, ethics and economics forms the core of the new paradigm. The world-system and the socio-scientific worldview that emerges are based on the learning paradigm. The paradigm is of the evolutionary kind derived from the dynamics of evolutionary learning that is premised on the episteme of unity of knowledge and its constructive role of the world-system.

Papers presented in HIJSE should be directed to this challenging new paradigm by taking account of the various deeply analytical issues it raises. The emergent paradigm is quite comprehensible in its originary perspective. Yet the dynamics and analytics embedded therein are not simple. Yet they form the most realistic elements in constructing an inclusive socio-scientific future of thought and moral-social construction.

Masudul Alam Choudhury